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== [[Advertising]] ==
* Cingular commercials: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nIUcRJX9-o 1], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psj2gQ6KaZk 2]
* Inverted in that annoying [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUBUxv4VsTw Staples Commercial].
{{quote|"WOW, THAT'S A LOW PRICE!"
"I KNOW!" }}
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* On ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', upon receiving a plumber's bill:
{{quote|'''Dawn:''' That's a weird phone number. Oh, wait... Is that the bill?!}}
* [[Played for Drama]] on ''[[The Sopranos]]''. Chris is the low man on the totem pole when the crew goes out to dinner, so he's constantly stuck paying the tab. This starts a vicious feud between Chris and Paulie about respect, which culminates when Chris is saddled with a six-figure restaurant bill from Atlantic City. He can barely cover the cost of the check, and when the waiter follows him into the parking lot to demand a tip, Chris murders him.
* The Aliens in ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]'' thought the bill was the population of Cleveland. When informed of its true nature, they used a [[Hollywood Hacking|modem]] to redirect the bill to one of the actors visiting the same hotel.
* One episode of ''[[Victorious]]'' features this, prompting both a [[Spit Take]] and a successful sneak out from their teacher. Unusual in that they already knew the restaurant was expensive and had ate there before, but [[Butt Monkey|Robbie]] had asked for a big bowl of caviar putting the price beyond what they could afford.
== [[Opera]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "The Dad Who Knew Too Little", PI Dexter Colt charges Homer $1000 for expenses, including a $40 steak. Homer flees, refusing to pay, and Colt swears revenge.
** One time, they were checking out of a hospital and:
{{quote|'''Homer''': "Is that the bill or your phone number?"
'''Nurse''': "That's the phone number. ''That's'' the bill."
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** In one episode, Lisa accrues a $1200 bill from [[Bland-Name Product|Mapple]] for downloading 1000 songs from iTunes. Lisa tries to appeal the bill by visiting Steve Mobs, but is promptly ousted.
* One ''[[Futurama]]'' episode has Bender [[Work Off the Debt]] at Elzar's restaurant because the crew didn't expect the bill to be so high. (They didn't expect it because Elzar had ''blinded'' Leela earlier and led them to believe the meal would be free.)
* ''[[The Fairly
* In ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', Mr. Krabs is shocked at the cost of the bill for his fancy dinner with [[Puffer Fish|Mrs. Puff]]. The waiter apologizes and brings him the real bill, which he finds even more shocking.
** In another episode, Mr. Krabs is initially shocked at his hospital bill but decides to send Spongebob, Patrick, and Squidward to med school to get in on the racket.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* The FCC has [http://fcc.gov/stage/Bill-Shock-White-Paper.pdf noted] that, due to the complexity of mobile phone plans, 17% of customers have experienced a "Bill Shock" at some point. The highest value complaint to the FCC in the first half of 2010 was in the amount of $68505.
* In Finland, traffic tickets can sometimes be tied to the offender's income, in order to ensure that the ultra-rich don't ignore traffic laws because they know they can afford it. One Nokia executive was hit with a $100,000 ticket for driving 15kph over the limit. Given the above example, this is kind of hilarious.
** In Finland most fines are in fact tied to the income of the offender to ensure both that they can be expected to afford it, ''and'' that it will hurt appropriately.
* More than a few people traveling to other countries might experience sticker shock if they [[Funny Money|forget to take their exchange rates into account]]. For instance, 5 (HK) bucks for a soda isn't so unreasonable a price when you remember that that is about 63 cents US.
* After the parents of a 8-year old girl let her play the game Smurfs' Village on their iPhone, she bought $1,400 worth of Smurfberries in the game. The girl did not realize that the in-game purchases were in real money and the parents did not know that the game would let her make the purchases for 15 minutes after they last used their account password without prompting for the password again. The publisher Capcom Games and Apple received many similar complaints about this issue from parents seeing $100+ bills on their accounts.
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